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20 thoughts on “Everything You Wanted To Know About Ableton Live 10”

“This upgrade path is not available for your license.” Funny…any existing owners of Live 9 Intro are not eligible for the free upgrade….thanks Ableton… quite unfair, i think … this should also be included in “everything you wanted to know about Live 10”

If you’ve used Live 9 for four years and expect to get a free upgrade, you might want to switch to Fruity Loops.

The free upgrade for new Live 9 buyers isn’t penalizing people who bought Live 9 four years ago. The free upgrade for new buyers is to avoid penalizing people that might want to buy Live right now, instead of next week.

New Live 9 buyers get a free upgrade to 10 simply because, otherwise, everyone would put off buying Live until the new version was released.

Remove all the Suite features, Push 2 and then have a demo what is new for AL10 (Standard/Into). Will become a very short and boring video. A good video should go from Intro to Standard to Site AL10 features. Most AL10 video talk just about Wavetable / expanded view. (Bitwig also has expanded view now) + Ableton missed an big opportunity to give AL9 Lite/Intro users and opportunity to try 10 and convince to (re)license or upgrade.

yeah intro and standard are pretty crap when you look at what is included – I mean I get not having all of the instruments but it doesn’t even have the sampler – I wish they would drop the price to one price between intro and standard and then let you purchase upgrades for all of the parts you want – like i would want the wavetable, drum rack, sampler and simpler – I don’t use any other instruments – don’t care about their sample packs and honestly only currently use the midi effects and like, the delay, filter and eq from the effects.

I also agree that it would be a great idea to let the user choose only the modules that are being used in the production/performances! I use sampler, simpler, drum rack, auto filter and max for live, that’s basically all. Since I have a lot of hardware stuff, I don’t use any of Ableton’s synths at all, effects are quite cheap sounding to me, maybe I would check out the wavetable, looks and sounds quite good.

yeah I am not really a fan of the effects, the delay is useful because it isn’t a cpu hog and eq and utility are useful and the filter is just convenient because it is there but if I didn’t have them I would just use free vsts that do the same thing – I use a both hardware and software approach so I use a lot of VSTS – which is why I am still using the 32 bit version – a lot of the vsts I like to use don’t have 64bit versions and jbridge gives me problems a lot of the time –

As a L9 Standard user I was underwhelmed with the 10 update features ,
but the Standard > Suite upgrade offer , whilst unfair to existing Suite users , was just TOO good for me to ignore

I was never interested enough in Suite at the previous price , but £190 for both upgrade to Suite + upgrade to 10 has pushed me into buying .
It is a double whammy .. as 9Standard > 10 Standard would be £160 post offer price , then I’ve just got Suite for £30 !
So I’m feeling pleased I think I got a good deal , whilst also feeling I’ve been played ! .
I wouldn’t have made this purchase now if it wasn’t for the limited time aspect of the deal . If they repeat it in the future it may dull my good will to them .
Also played because I was also considering switching to Bitwig ,…had they charged any more I may have flipped sides , but Ableton happened ? to keep the price lower than Bitwig’s similarly timed sale price .

I’m still underwhelmed now using L10 beta , & am hoping for more workflow enhancements & Max4Live developments rather than unwanted synths & devices .
Particularly on the graphics side , I want more extended views for more devices , integrated with more control over the second window view ( at least an option to break the fixed alternating Arrange vs Session views , there are times when I want BOTH to be Session – eg Clips & midi screen 1 , Mixer & audio device screen 2 .)
I am frustrated by having to tweak so much in the restricted bottom device slot , & generally will opt to use vst plugins whenever I can simply to see a larger view in the middle of my screen for editing .

I wish they could just make a stripped down version of Ableton that could play loops in grid mode, have couple of sends and a mixer and it would run on iOS. That’s all I use Ableton for and Lite version is enough for me.